Zola Budd
Sir, —Zola Budd is but one girl; many gifted South Africans have been denied international competition — blacks by apartheid, whites by the world’s rejection. That rejection, together with black pressure, has made the Broederbond Government reconsider. Will M. Johnston (June 13) tell us why one talented white girl should be an exception to the boycott and why she/he cares only about her, overexposed as she is, and not about the millions of blacks denied the right of voting for their Government or about blacks denied international recognition by that Government? When one builds a wall against apartheid one does not remove an individual brick because it is young, talented, female and disappointed. The South African Government is trying to that wall down,
just as it is oppressing black opposition, with all its might, wealth and propaganda. I believe we should not open the .way for it.—Yours, etc., ' / SUSAN TAYLOR. Jupe 13, 1988. .... ■.> ...
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